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But that all-essential one—if we desire to secure the confidence of our contemporaries, and the respect of posterity—of an honest man, I fear he was never able to personate successfully.

From Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams

In the night he fled, accompanied by his wife and child, leaving the tribe in charge of his younger brother Sondaba, who agreed to personate him.

From By Veldt and Kopje by W. C. (William Charles) Scully

But to imagine he could personate the brave St. Udo!

From Faithful Margaret A Novel by Annie Ashmore

They did not always personate the same characters.

From Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. by William Pittenger

Corolla personate, the palate on the lower lip projecting, often closing the throat; upper lip erect.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray

“Everett Quinton personates the oinker as a most sympathetic fellow,” Don Nelsen wrote in a review in The Daily News.

From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2023

"Thine enemies," said Macoma, "O Sultan, are no more, save the enchantress Hapacuson, who personates the rebel Ourodi."

From Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers by L. (Laura) Valentine

It resembled that of the stage where the same actor personates both Dromios; and their life was one perpetual Comedy of Errors.

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan

Colonel Freeman personates a French fop, and obtains his consent to marry his ward, the heiress.—Mrs.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

Act II. of the First Part of Henry IV., between Falstaff and Prince Hal, wherein Falstaff personates the prince's father.

From Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 by Arthur Acheson

The real Garlinghouse reported this to Instagram, which took a look ... and then 72 hours later, informed him that after investigating the company had determined that he was not actually being personated.

From The Verge ● Apr. 22, 2020

Dr. Trefusis personated a violinist, sawing upon the air.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

Sometimes they personated characters in Homer or in ancient Greek history, and delivered speeches which those characters might have delivered in certain conjunctures of their lives.

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

It appeared that it was not the first time Despard had personated young De Hauteroche, to his own advantage, and the latter’s disgrace.

From The Guerilla Chief And other Tales by Mayne Reid

He personated everything in the world, and no one could personate him.

From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography by Jean Paul

What a majesty Without all servile affectation His personating presence, cloth'd with state And princely posture, seems to represent!

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Robert Dodsley

Amongst our number was the celebrated Miss Clara Fisher—famed for her aptitude in personating variety of character, having wonderful powers of mimicry.

From Notes on a Tour Through the Western part of The State of New York by Anonymous

Which, if I mistake not, is the streatest Curse can fall on you——Well, you must suffer a small Metamorphosis: What think you of personating me a little?

From The Perjur'd Husband by Susanna Centlivre

In personating his sister, I only claimed a grant to the land.

From Gabriel Conroy by Bert Harte

He acts exactly as a man would act who was personating some one else.

From Faithful Margaret A Novel by Annie Ashmore